you see people marching in a hundred cities yesterday. here's what republican congressman joe barton said this week about minimum wage. quote, i think it's outlived its usefulness. it may have been of some value back in the great depression. i would vote to repeal the minimum wage. that's what we're dealing with, randi. >> so, you know, when there's -- i've seen and i've been in washington now awhile, and it really is an evidence-free zone. it doesn't actually matter what the facts are. so maybe, you know, now that the pope has come out against trickle-down against austerity. maybe some of these folks will listen to the pope and to the church. but at the end of the day, what we know from years of economic basic economics and basic life is that if people have more money in their pockets, if they had more money, they're going to spend more money. they'll spend more money in a small business. they'll spend more money on their kids. they'll spend more money maybe on a vacation. so the more money that people have, the more money they'll spend.